Improvement in cotton-seed sowers



J. SHEARER.

Cotton Seed Sower.

No. 104,89Ii I i Pa'tentedlune 28, 1870.

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JOSEPH SHEARER, OF TIMBERVILLE, ILLINOIS.

Lelters Patent N 104,893, dated June 28, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-SEED SOWERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and makingpart of thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SHEARER, of Timberville, in the county Wabashand in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovemerits in Cotton-seed Sowers; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of referencemarked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a machine for sowing cotton-seed, as will be hereinafter fully setforth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make anduse the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and oper ation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure 1 is a side elevation, and

Figure 2 is a plan view of my machine.

A represents the frame of the machine, which is mounted upon twodriving-wheels 13 B, in the followmg manner:

The wheels B B are mounted, one upon'each end of an axle, O, which hasits bearings and revolves in suitable j ournal-boxes on the front sidesof two upright bars, D D. These bars are placed in grooves, one on eachside of the frame A, and a suitable distance from its rear end.

The bars D D are secured, each by a bolt, to the frame A, and also to asemicircular brace, E, on the same, as seen in fig. 1. By thisarrangement the wheels are made adj nstable, that is, they can be raisedand lowered at pleasure.

The tongue G is secured, in any suitable manner, in the front end of theframe A, and through the same, at a suitable point, is an upright rod,H, the lower end of which is forked and curved, as shown in fig. 1, toform bearings for the gauge or temper-wheel I.

In addition to the rotary motion of which the rod H is capable, it canalso, with the wheel, be adjusted up or down by means of a lever, J,which is pivoted in a forked standard, K, near the rear end of thetongue G. j

The front end of said lever hasa hole, through which the upper end ofthe rod H passes, a collar or nut, a, being placed on said rod above andbelow the front end of the lever J.

The rear end of the lever J is pressed into notches on the inner side ofthe standard L, by a 'spring attached to the same, so that, by movingsaid lever from one notch to another in the standard, the gauge-wheel Iis raised or lowered, as may be desired.

In its passage toward the rear, the leverJ is curved, as shown in fig.2, so as to pass along the side of the seed-box M, which is secured at asuitable point on the frame A, and has on top the drivers seat N.

The lever J is, at the side of said seed-box, provided with a handle, 0,so that the driver may readily, from his seat, reach and operate thesame, for the purposes above i'ucntioned.

Under the seed-box M, in suitable journal-boxes on the frame A, isplaced a shaft, 11', which is provided with a roller, 1.

This roller projects upward through an opening in the bottom of theseed-box M, and is,on its circumference, provided with a number of pins,1' c.

Above the roller P is another roller, It, extending across the seed-box,and its journals having their hearings in the side of the box.

This roller R is provided with a number of arms, (Id. The two rollers Pand R, with their pins and arms, are revolved, keeping the seed inmotion, to prevent the seed from forming a bed in the box or hopper, andto feed the seed to the ground.

These rollers are revolved by the following means:

A pulley, c, is conuectcthby a belt, f, with a pulley, g, on the shaftI). 1

Another belt, h, connects another pulley on the shaft 1) with a pulleyon the end of one of the journals to the roller It.

At or near the lower end of each of the adj nstable uprights D issecured a slotted bar or brace, S, which is inclined upward andbackward, as shown in fi 1, and is attached to or at the rear end of theframe A, by a headed bolt, 7;.

' In the two slotted braces S S are placed the journals of a .roller, T,which can rise and fall in said braces, thus being self-adjusting to theground.

Immediately in front of the roller T, between it and the point where theseed falls out of the box, is a rake or scraper, V, provided with wings,W.

This rake or scraper is attached to the frame A by means of springwires, X, so that the rake will yield when it meets any seriousobstruction. The springs X are bent, asshown in fig. 1, so that theirfront ends will. pass vertically up through the frame A, in front of theseed-box M, said wires or springs being secured, by nuts, above andbelow the frame. By changing these nuts, the rake or scraper is raisedor lowered at will.

On a cross-beam in front of the seed-box M is sccnred a bar, Y, at thelower end of which is attached the furrow-plow Z. The bar Y is slottedvertically, so'

that the plow can be adjusted higher up or lower down, as may bedesired.

At suitable points on the under side of the fijame -A are placedtwoinclined beams, A A, at the lower These ends of which the plows B B aresecured. plows are each made of one solid piece of metal, no welding tobe done. The land-side, mold-board, shear, and point, are all cut out atthe same time, and bent so as to form the plow.

onally-plaeed slot-ted braces S Haring thus fully described myinvention,

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. The arrangement of the wheels 13 B, axle 0, uprights I) 1), andcircular braces E E, for the purpose of adjusting the wheels,substantially as herein seti'crth.

2. In combination with the foregoing, the roller '1, provided \rithjournals and operatingwvithin t-he diag- S upon the rear of the frame,all substantially as set forth.

3. The scraper V, provided with wings \V, and suspended under the rearpart of the seed-box M of a cotton-seed sewer by means of the springs X,sub--

